It is quite ironic that I had to reach the autumn of my life before I began to truly enjoy the

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16. Luckily, loving nature, and being an artist I was pretty attuned....

to 💖Spring(!!!!!!)💖 early on! ☀️🌱🌱🌱

Luckily I had a modest size park a block away to watch
the trees green up. 😌
Not much flowers.

Then we moved when I was 17. A park was now 3 blocks away but it was one of NYC's Big Parks!
Our entrance led right into the long wide walkway that had the wonderful, big (?)elm trees beside it. The long garden was next to the walkway was full of flowers! 💖

For around 10 yrs I'd start going around mid Feb through late May/early June documenting trees, my favorites, and other flowers with a sort of chart, and little growing flower icons that had them peeking up through the ground, buds formung, to full blossomings.

And people across from our apt building had lots of hollyhocks.❤️
We had a fair amount of street trees but not many super tall ones. Back in the early '60s many avenues including most of our 5-6 story Elm trees were cut bc of Dutch Elm disease. 😭 So restoration took time.

I rejoice every spring when little green shoots start showing up, the buds peeking out.

Not trite at all! Enjoy this glorious cycle.